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Evolution

I started working on the Sherwood throw on February 22nd so I could take a mental breather from complicated crochet and just do something mindless.

One row repeats of straight granny stitch is about as mindless as you can get in crochet. It's soothing and I don't have to count stitches or think about it.

I didn't follow a color repeat, either. I just grabbed whatever yarn I liked from the bunch I'd pulled from my stash and crocheted a row.

I'm also using the throw in progress to demonstrate certain habits of mine, like weaving in ends as I go along versus waiting until I'm finished crocheting.

It's not perfect, and the palette could be called subdued. It's certainly not as flashy as the last throw I made. But it is a source of calm and quiet in my otherwise busy and often hectic days.

It also gives me the time and headspace to think. Right now I'm tinkering on the beginning of a project for the day job, and thinking a lot about how to refine my ideas. I can be completely absorbed by that while I'm working on this.

I don't publish all the pics I take of Sherwood, but I am documenting how much I get done every night.

Seeing it slowly evolve is a delight.

There isn't much I can do these days without difficulty or some amount of struggle. Sherwood is basically effortless.

That is why I can't wait to work on it -- because with this project I get a very nice spiritual boost.

One last tip: use a stitch marker to hold your last stitch so you don't pull out your stitches when you move your work in progress. :)

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